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Mike Giles, a St. George, Utah, police captain, said a high school student reported to a teacher seeing smoke wafting from a backpack, prompting a two-hour evacuation and the arrest of a student who was charged with carrying a homemade bomb to school.
Stephen Chandler, pastor of the Destiny Church in Colombia, Md., said that to demonstrate God’s goodness and to attract people to the church’s new location in a strip mall, he added a fourth Sunday service and distributed 2,250 free raffle tickets to give away five used cars.
Bryan Thornhill of Roanoke, Va., drew criticism and more than 1.6 million views when he posted on social media a video of him making his 10-year-old son jog a mile in the rain to school after the boy was kicked off the school bus for three days for bullying.
Chelsea Guerra, 22, who posed wearing nothing but thigh-high stockings and high heels in a Pittsburgh shopping center in 2017, and photographer Michael Warnock, 64, both pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and were ordered to pay $300 fines.
Christopher Tunnell, an Ohio prosecutor, said a 27-year-old Hayesville mother who cleaned up a bloody bed and returned to work after her 4-year-old daughter survived being shot four times with a .22-caliber rifle by her 8-year-old son was arrested when she finally took her daughter to a hospital.
Matt Page, spokesman for the Utah State Bar, said he has no idea how a photo of a topless woman got attached to an email promoting the bar association’s spring convention that was sent to all of the state’s active attorneys.
Spencer Pace, an undersheriff in Kirkwood, Calif., called it a “freak accident” after a 50-year-old mother and her 7-year-old son died when a chunk of snow about the size of a trailer slid off a roof and buried them just feet from the door of their ski resort condo unit.
Ricky Simeone, New York City’s pest control director, said workers are burying blocks of dry ice in rat burrows, explaining that the frozen carbon dioxide suffocates the trapped rats, killing them within minutes.
Billy McFarland, 26, pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud after using fake documents to trick people to invest in the failed Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, where customers were told they’d have upscale accommodations and gourmet food but instead got tents and cheese sandwiches.